Joseph koon



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

JosEPH KooN, CE NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, Assi'eNoE 'ro LEwIs sCHIELE a Co., or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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SPCCA'IN forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,478. dated May 8, .1888.

Application filed February 27, 188B. Serial No. 265,454. No model.)

Toa/ZZ .whom it may concer-2z:

Be it known that l, JOSEPH' KooN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawing and the. letters of refer.- ence marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specication, and represents a view of back of corset with la portion of the two sides laced thereto.

This invention relates toan improvement in that class of corsets in which the back is madeclose--t-hat is to say, the usual lacings at the center are transferred to the sides, and theA back between the two is made close and so as to give airm support to the back; and the invention is an improvement upon the corset for which Letters Patent No. 274,405 were granted March 20, 1883. In that patent the close back consists of. two curved broad stays each aside'of the center, with an intermediate or center stay which gradually widens from the bottom to the top of the corset, these broad stays giving a firm support to the back. The broad central stay necessarily lies directly upon the back, and because of its great width more or less heat must necessarily arise from the close fit of this central portion of the back of the corset.

The object of my invention is to preserve substantially the expanding central or spinal stay, but yet give to it a certain amount of iiexibility and ventilation to make the corset more easy to the wearer, and at the same time ventilate the backto avoid the excess of heat; and the invention consists in making the central portion of gradually increasing Width from the bottom toward the top, with two pockets and stays extending from thebottom to the top of this central portion, the two stays diverging from the bottom upward, so as to leave a flexible space between them, and this space pierced for ventilation.

In representing the corset I show the whole back, but a portion 'only of the two sides.

The central portion A, increases gradually 'in width from the bottom to the top, and in this ing from the bottom tothe'top of the corset, s o .as to give an increased width of staysupport at the top, as in the patent before referred to; but in that patent this increased width is produced by a singlestay made of such gradually-expanding shape. Between the -two pockets `B C the material forms a merous perforations, u, are made, preferably bushed with eyelets, as shown. At each side of this central portion a section is attached, each'having a pocket,.E, `of curved shape and adaptedto receive a correspondingly-curved broad steel stay, the curve being from the waist-line upward and to the right and left,

portion A two pockets,'B C, areforrned adapt ed to receive steel stays, the pockets divergflexible space, D, and through this'spacenuand from the waistline downward to the right f l and left,'asin the patent before referred to. At-the edges of this back section of the corset eyelets are introduced and corresponding eyelets introduced into the adjacent edges of the side sections,which are laced, as illustrated in ythe drawing, and as in the patent before rcferred to.

From the foregoing it will be-understood that I claim nothing shown or described in the before-mentioned patent, except in the combination hereinafter described.l yL

'I claim- A corset having aback section laced to the adjacent sections, the said back section provided with two stays at the center extending from top to bottom and gradually diverging from the bottom to the top, the space'between the said two stays perforated, combined with the two stays E E, arranged, respectively, in

the waist-line upward and forward' and downward and forward, substantially asdescribed.

v JOS. KOON.

Witnesses:

J CHN E. EARLE,

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the back at the right and, left of the central or back` stays, the-said stays E E curved from 

